Lenovo is a global technology powerhouse, ranked at 217 in the Fortune Global 500, and a $62 billion revenue company that employs 77,000 people worldwide focused on delivering “smarter technology for all”. Building on our success as the world’s number one PC maker, Lenovo is expanding its research into growth areas to advance “New IT” technologies (client, edge, cloud, network, and intelligence).
Lenovo xCloud, leveraging the Lenovo Group’s 40 years of IT expertise and based on end-to-end best practices, builds a solid foundation on hybrid cloud infrastructure and delivers comprehensive, in-depth solution upgrades centered on artificial intelligence. It fully meets customers’ growing needs in various fields, including AI computing power, AI engineering, and AI governance, assisting customers in their intelligent transformation, simplifying complexity, and reshaping the future of enterprises.
Lenovo xCloud is the next-generation of Lenovo hybrid cloud solution in the AI era. It offers cloud-based AI infrastructure to meet ever-growing customer needs for AI computing power, AI engineering, and AI governance. It also boosts CloudOps and FinOps with rich built-in AI features, improving cloud operational efficiency. In essence, it’s the tangible implementation of Enterprise AI Twin.
Lenovo xCloud’s FinOps leverages Lenovo’s extensive experience in the hybrid cloud field to optimize the efficiency of cloud resource usage. It employs data-driven strategies to balance costs, performance, and business requirements, achieving insights into cloud costs, optimizing those costs, quantitatively evaluating business value, and enabling full-lifecycle management of FinOps practices.
Insights: Allocation & Visualization
Data Collection: Metering data, surcharges, Configuration Management Database (CMDB), etc.
Cost Management: Pricing, discounts, cost allocation, repricing, etc.
Visualization: Cost breakdown, multi-dimensional billing, cost analysis, billing reports, etc.
Optimization: Resource Allocation
Resource Optimization: Configuration adjustments, idle resource reclamation, downsizing and tracking savings.
Payment Optimization: Reserved Instances (RI), Savings Plans (SP), Commitment Plans (CPP), and subscription usage analytics.
Architecture Optimization: Implementing auto-scaling and hybrid deployment strategies.
Operations: Cost Control & Management
Financial Management: Budgeting, tracking income & expenditure, and managing cost centers.
Cost Monitoring: Keeping track of performance metrics, utilization rates, cost tracking, and anomaly detection.
Operational Management: Identifying risks, issuing alerts, forecasting, and developing operational strategies.
By supporting large AI model engines, Lenovo xCloud deeply analyzes hybrid cloud environments, uncovers data patterns, and provides optimization suggestions and operational strategies for financial operations. This enables enterprises to enhance technical efficiency and optimize costs in complex cloud settings, transforming cloud resource investments into measurable business growth.